Yesterday, I mentioned that two of the area’s main avenues of yearly excitement, namely, the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix were over and done with for 2009. Nowhere was this more apparent than when I showed up at Nice airport’s terminal 1 for a pickup at 2:49 this afternoon: where a week ago, hordes of people were scurrying hither and yon, the place was eerily quiet today, and just a handful of people were waiting for the London passengers who had just arrived on BA 344. Even for the week following the end of the festival and the Grand Prix, this lack of activity is highly unusual. It is true that the global economic crisis is having a huge impact on air travel, something Amadeus, the company I work for, knows a thing or two about.